What Should You Know?

With an average of just 6 students per staff at our camps, we offer unparalleled care and risk management. It is much more expensive to do it this way, but the one-on-one instruction is worth it!

A policy of "No Counselors-In-Training" teaching our courses or supervising our students. We could save a lot of money by utilizing CITs, but we choose not to cut corners and quality. We only hire adult staff.

iD Tech Camps, the nation's largest summer technology camp, is currently accredited by the ACA at many sites. Always look for the ACA logo, read the fine print, and consult www.acacamps.org for authenticity.

We change our courses, curriculum, and software every season-providing a new experience even to those that return year after year. Find out more about what's new this season.

We don't play games to make our ratios appear better. At our ACA-accredited sites, camper ratios are VERIFIED by the American Camp Association.

A computer for every student (no need to share).

Both Alexa (Co-Founder, CFO and Pete's sister) and I (Pete, President and CEO) have young families. We ask ourselves everyday, "Would we send our own kids to iD Tech Camps?" With this perspective, our camps take on a whole different meaning.

The same family that founded iD Tech Camps is still running it today, 10 seasons later. Every year the company evolves and gets better and better. Our loyal following says it all.

1. We pay, on average, 25% more than the industry standard and, considerably more than our nearest competitors. We challenge our staff and set the bar high.
2. Our instructors love having an average of just 5 or 6 students in a course! We talk a lot about "The iD Family"—our staff is an immediate extension. Our staff is the Gold Standard.

We boast an unparalleled lineup of 50 universities in the USA and Spain: Stanford, MIT, UCLA, Northwestern, Vassar, Columbia, Emory, UT Austin, the University of Cádiz and many more. Only the best!

While many other programs get sidetracked by organizing birthday parties and adult programs, we strategically focus on our core competency–iD Tech Camps. Our focus has made us the #1 technology camp in the USA.

We have been approached by many clients and businesses about franchising iD Tech Camps. We respectfully decline solicitations for franchising. We want to ensure the quality of our camps. All camps are owned and operated by the same family that founded the company.

Whether at camp or in your home, we respect your privacy. We do not make cold calls or intrusive sales calls. Likewise, we do not send you endless, mindless emails.

We use the best BRAND NAME products at our summer camps from icons like Adobe®, Apple® and Microsoft®. Find out more about our partners.

Our NVIDIA®-hosted gaming tournaments feature the biggest titles. Even Pete, the president of iD Tech Camps, gets in on these national gaming tournaments! (But he doesn't make it very far—our campers are too good!)

These tournaments WILL NOT infringe on instructional time. We take this issue seriously.

Each of our camps has to strike the right balance between "computer time" and Tech-Reation. We are a technology camp, but we also take time out for sports, board games and building new friendships. Tech Camp is not just about computers and technology.

We are American Camping Association® (ACA) accredited at multiple locations. We actually exceed many of the standards set forth by the ACA. Becoming accredited AND MAINTAINING that accreditation is a huge undertaking for a camp our size, and a great source of pride.

Distinguishing ourselves from most summer camps, many years ago we respectfully created a policy of "No Counselors-in-Training" (CITs). This guarantees that each student is instructed AND supervised exclusively by paid adult staff 18 years of age and older. CITs, we feel, can be an asset to some camps, but not iD Tech Camps. We do not want to cut corners by cutting payroll and quality.

We recruit industry professionals, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates majoring in Film, Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Media Arts, Game Development and other related fields.

Many of our older teenage campers want to work for iD Tech Camps some day. We encourage them to do so once they are in college.

1. We provide some of the highest compensation in the industry—considerably more than our nearest competitors, and
2. Our instructors love having an average of just 6 students in a course! We talk a lot about “The iD Family”—our staff is an immediate extension.

Our staff selection is our bread-and-butter. We have multiple full-time, year-round Regional Managers who are charged with hiring the best staff. Each Regional Manager oversees a small number of university locations. Our Regional Managers were all previous iD Tech Camp Directors, so they know exactly what an iD Tech Camp should look like. We are very proud of the level of quality control and organization that we have developed.

New and returning employees are required to PERSONALLY attend regional pre-camp training sessions. The well-being of iD Tech Campers and staff is worth going the extra mile.

- Each summer camp has a Director AND instructors that
  are CPR/First Aid Certified
- Criminal background checks are required of ALL staff
- Sexual Offender Background checks required of ALL staff
- Personal AND professional references required of ALL staff

The collaborative brainpower of 500 instructors! We're celebrating our 10th season and pursuing the most significant revamping at iD Tech Camps in the past 10 seasons. Students will be able to move along faster and more independently, or collaborate utilizing our customized lessons—while still receiving our gold standard 1-on-1 instruction (average 6 students per staff).

Our new curriculum is designed for beginning through advanced learners, allowing each student to move along at their own pace with customized lessons for a fun and appropriate challenge. We have raised the standard for learning with extremely small course "clusters" averaging only 6 students per instructor.

Because of this tight ratio, each instructor can personalize and customize the curriculum to the skill level of the student. This enables each student to learn at his/her own pace. All courses emphasize comprehensive, in-depth, experience-based learning. Each student will spend the week working toward the completion of a project. View all courses.

We want each of our students to come away with usable skills for the future. Dabbling in too many subject areas at one time, we feel, is not a good way to accomplish this goal. Each student focuses on just one topic per week. (Students can register for several weeks to acquire new skills.)

Weekly courses are for Beginner to Advanced skill levels. Beginners should not be intimidated. Experts can expect to be challenged. Register for one course per week and register for as many weeks as you like. View all courses.

Online learning is rapidly changing the way we deliver content and instruct. However, we are ACUTELY AWARE that instructors should, and must, instruct. Staff should not depend on online tutorials for “substitute teaching.” Instructors must instruct! They must encourage. They must inspire. Read about our staff or learn about how we teach.

As a family-run company, we meticulously recruit, interview, train, and regularly evaluate each staff member.

We provide all of our summer camps with internet filtering software. This helps to keep the bad stuff out of reach.

Our curriculum team has sterling credentials. Here is the resume of one of our developers, Tim Yuen.

• PhD in Curriculum and Instruction - Instructional Technology, University of Texas
• MS Computer Science, University of Southern California
• BS Information & Computer Science, UC Irvine
• Graduate Research Assistant - Coldfusion Developer - UT Center for Reading and Language Arts
• 5-Year Director at iD Tech Camps
• Lead Instructor at iD Tech Camps
• Teaching Assistant - UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
• Grader - UC Irvine, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Our teaching philosophy is “experience-based” which means from the moment the students enter our lab, the experience is hands-on. We challenge and guide our students, encouraging each to experiment. Students work at their own pace and prepare for the grand debut of their projects at the end of the week during Family Showcase.